Inside Opera: Live

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Seven of the UK’s opera companies have joined forces to produce Inside Opera: Live, a unique online event offering unprecedented behind the scenes access and insight into the opera being created and performed in theatres across the country.

In a collaboration, the scope of which is a first for the arts, the companies – English National Opera, English Touring Opera, Northern Ireland Opera, Opera North, The Royal Opera, Scottish Opera,and Welsh National Opera – will come together on 10 May 2014 as part of a Europe-wide celebration of opera.

Designed for anyone who is new to opera, this ambitious event will be hosted on YouTube. It combines live streamed and filmed footage to give viewers a chance to experience opera across the UK from the inside.

The four-hour streamed event will be hosted from the Grand Theatre in Leeds and will air specially commissioned behind the scenes films from all the participating companies, live interviews with singers and directors, and live links to rehearsals, backstage and community-based activities.

In the course of a packed afternoon, viewers will have the chance to hear from performers just before they go on stage; find out how a singer prepares for a new role; meet the people behind an opera production and learn what they do; see what it takes to make and take an opera out on tour; and understand the skill that goes into making a period costume. Throughout the event there will also be the opportunity to get involved live via Twitter by using #insideopera.

Inside Opera:Live can be seen on YouTube from 2pm - 6pm on Saturday 10 May 2014 at www.youtube.com/insideopera. You can also subscribe to ENO's YouTube channel here.